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Friday, February 5, 2016

Hillary's Only Accomplishment: She's a Woman!

On the campaign trail, Hillary Clinton is good at pointing out problems in America, and then, claiming she's the only one to fix them. However, we won't be told the "how" until later; after she becomes President.

This is Hillary's biggest problem. She does not have a laundry list of accomplishments. She, herself, can't even name one; as this quote from a Politico.com 2014 article reveals:

During her 2014 book tour, when ABC’s Diane Sawyer asked her about her “marquee achievement,” Clinton changed the subject and she fumbled over a similar question during a women’s forum in Manhattan last year."

Talking about a problem such as women's pay might give some women a reason to vote for her, but "where's the beef"; as was noted in that famous Wendy's commercial. Much of what she was charged to accomplish in the past has failed, like her 1994 attempt as First Lady, to get some bipartisan agreement on healthcare reform. Or, her disastrous "reset" of relations with Russia. Then, it was her gross mismanagement of U.S. funding during recovery activities in Haiti following the 7.0 earthquake. Of course, during Hillary's tenure as Secretary of State, the Middle East has suffered a near complete meltdown, instead of the supposed joyous "Arab Spring". Lastly, her biggest failure may be yet to come with the "failure" to safeguard this nation's top secrets by having and using an unsecured, private email server for all her communications while serving as Secretary of State.

Simply, Hillary wants to be this country's first woman President without any real credentials that go along with the job. I'm all for a woman President, butHillary is not that person. People really need to take her record into consideration before casting a vote for her.